Royalians, Presentation get Intercol boot.
By: Nigel Simon (T&T Guardian).
Zonal title-holders, Queen’s Royal College (North) and Presentation College of San Fernando (South), were both booted from this year’s Secondary Schools Football League Coca-Cola Inter-Col at the semifinal hurdle yesterday.
In the North, the Royalians, coming off a 4-2 penalty-kick win over Fatima College in their quarterfinal failed to survive another penalty-kick battle.
This time QRC fell to rivals St Mary’s 5-4 on penalties after a 0-0 draw at the end of 90 minutes in the first match of a double-header at the Hasely Crawford Stadium, Mucurapo.
In the North final scheduled for tomorrow at the same venue from 4 pm, the “Saints” will meet bitter rivals and league champions, St Anthony’s College after the latter defeated East Mucurapo 3-0 in yesterday’s other semifinal.
Team captain and national Under-20 midfielder Dwight Ceballo opened the scoring for the “Westmooring Tigers” in the 30th minute while Keane Mc Ivor made it 2-0 four minutes after the interval before Rehsard Allen added the third in the 65th for the team’s ninth win from as many matches this season.
Shiva Boys dump Presentation
Down South, a new zonal champion will be crowned after the Dexter Francis-coached Shiva Boys’ slipped past last year’s winner Presentation College 1-0 in the first semifinal at the Mannie Ramjohn Stadium, Marabella.
The lone goal came courtesy national Under-20 midfielder Joshua Bachan in the 75th minute. In Thursday’s final, Shiva will meet zonal league winners Naparima College which got the better of St Benedict’s College 4-2 on penalty kicks after a 1-1 scoreline.
Naparima captain, Anthony Parris had given his team a 63rd minute lead but with a minute left in regulation-time Kyle Celestine fired in St Benedict’s equaliser to send the match into the dreaded shoot-out where his team missed twice.
Over in Tobago, Roxborough Secondary and Mason Hall completed the semifinal line-up with comfortable quarterfinal wins over Speyside and Pentecostal Light and Life respectively at the Dwight Yorke Stadium, Bacolet.
Results
North
St Mary’s 0 vs QRC 0
St Mary’s won 5-4 on penalty-kicks
St Anthony’s 3 (Dwight Ceballo 30th, Keane Mc Ivor 49th, Rehard Allen 65th) vs East Mucurapo 0
South
Shiva Boys 1 (Joshua Bachan 75th) vs Presentation 0
St Benedict’s 1 (Kyle Celestine 89th) vs Naparima 1 (Anthony Parris 63rd)
Naparima won 4-2 on penalty-kicks
Quarterfinal
Tobago
Roxborough 2 (Curtis Joseph 3rd, Neishawn Roberts 19th) vs Speyside 0
Mason Hall 4 (Brandon Joseph 10th, Onasi Forde 19th, Omar Charles 43rd pen, Akini James 85th) vs Pentecostal Light and Life 0.
Schedule
Today Semifinals
Central
Venue: Ato Boldon Stadium, Couva
Tabaquite vs Carapichaima, 3 pm
Couva West vs Waterloo, 5 pm
East
Venue: Larry Gomes Stadium, Malabar
Arima North vs San Juan North, 3 pm
El Dorado East vs St Augustine, 5 pm
